CMOC increased cobalt production by 13% to 61,073 tonnes in the first half of 2025. • The DRC extended its cobalt export ban, forcing CMOC to stockpile while adapting. • CMOC maintains its 2025 cobalt ...

Following the death of a mine worker in East Tennessee, 6 News is taking a closer look at the dangers of the job.

A new documentary looked at ways to reduce the human and environmental harms stemming from the mining of "critical minerals." Without minerals like cobalt, nickel and lithium, there would be no ...

America is taking on China in the race to the bottom of the sea, hoping that new mining techniques will help break Beijing’s ...

The clean energy revolution is being built on the backs of enslaved children and at the cost of strengthening China.

Child labourers in Africa are being rebranded as 'artisanal miners' – it's time for the West to stop ignoring modern slavery ...

Riders display their mastery in the saddle as well as their ornate styling at the Hassan II Trophy of Tbourida in Morocco on Friday. Liberia's Maia McCoy triumphs in the Women's 100m race, at the Kip ...

By the time one traces the chain from the child slogging in the cobalt mine to the rechargeable gadgets and cars sold to consumers around the world, the links have been misdirected beyond recognition, ...

Battery metal cobalt has been in focus in recent years for its role in lithium-ion batteries, bringing attention to the top cobalt producing countries. One of the metal’s main catalysts is the ...

Some three quarters of the word’s supply of cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where children as young as 10 years old help extract the metal from hand dug shafts in the ...

Artisanal and small-scale mining plays a critical role in supplying the world with minerals vital for decarbonization, but this kind of mining typically lacks regulation and can be socially and ...